cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/74867
Inactive Google Account Policy
A Google Account gives you Google-wide access to most Google products, such as Google Ads, Gmail, and YouTube, using the same username and password.
An inactive Google Account is an account that has not been used within a 2-year period. Google reserves the right to delete an inactive Google Account and its activity and data if you are inactive across Google for at least two years.
Google also reserves the right to delete data in a product if you are inactive in that product for at least two years. This is determined based on each product’s inactivity policies.
How Google defines activity
A Google Account that is in use is considered active. Activity might include these actions you take when you sign in or while you’re signed in to your Google Account:
- Reading or sending an email
- Using Google Drive
- Watching a YouTube video
- Sharing a photo
- Downloading an app
- Using Google Search
- Using Sign in with Google to sign in to a third-party app or service
Google Account activity is demonstrated by account and not by device. You can take actions on any surface where you’re signed in to your Google Account, for example, on your phone.
If you have more than one Google Account set up on your device, you’ll want to make sure each account is used within a 2-year period.
What happens when your Google Account is inactive
When your Google Account has not been used within a 2-year period, your Google Account, that is then deemed inactive, and all of its content and data may be deleted. Before this happens, Google will give you an opportunity to take an action in your account by:
- Sending email notifications to your Google Account
- Sending notifications to your recovery email, if any exists
Google products reserve the right to delete your data when your account has not been used within that product for a 2-year period.
December 1, 2023 is the earliest a Google Account will be deleted due to this policy.
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Will that free up email addresses? 🤔
- argv_minus_one ( @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) English2•1 year ago
Hopefully not. If it does, then if any of those email addresses were used for password recovery for an account on some other website, that account is going to get hacked.
I hope so
Should be interesting all those users like myself that use Newpipe to access YouTube.
I’ve got content on my YT account and I’ve actually watched a video via my Chromecast/Official YT app recently, it’s something to be aware of I suppose.
A Google Account is considered active even if it has not been used within a 2-year period if one or more of these applies:
- Your Google Account has been used to purchase a digital item, for example, a book or movie.
Will a book that is temporarily free upon purchase count?
This is a good workaround for rarely used accounts. I think it might be well worth grabbing a cheap ebook to effectively hold your account.
Bro, just send an email every two years
You don’t need a device, you can just buy it from the account on any browser via the play store.
Will link the account to your financial information from Google’s standpoint. Some people may object to that.
Dang, considering i made a few accounts and then forgot the ID to them… Wouldn’t mind tbh.
They can freely delete all of my accounts. I would thank them for the service.
Google can kiss my ass. I have an account with a non-gmail email and fake info that I used exclusively to buy Nova for few cents when it was on sale (with a burner CC). Go ahead, delete everything you’re basically doing me a favor.